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  • Space Physics

    An Introduction

    by C. T. Russell, J. G. Luhmann, R. J. Strangeway ...
    This textbook, derived from courses given by three leading researchers, provides advanced undergraduates and graduates with up-to-date coverage of space physics, from the Sun to the interstellar medium. Clear explanations of the underlying physical processes are presented alongside major new discoveries and knowledge gained from space missions, ground-based observations, theory, and modelling to ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Organization and Decision

    by NIklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society without losing ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities

    Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

    Edited by Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Malte Lühmann, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically rich ... Read more

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  • The Making of Meaning: From the Individual to Social Order

    Selections from Niklas Luhmann's Works on Semantic and Social Structure

    by Niklas Luhmann, Christian Morgner, Margaret Hiley, Michael King ...
    Niklas Luhmann is now widely recognized as one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century. While several of his key texts have been translated into English significant parts of Luhmann's extensive output remain unavailable to a non-German-speaking readership. His publication in four volumes on Gesellschaftsstruktur and Semantik (Social Structure and Semantics) 1980, 1981, 1989 ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The New Boss

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Any organization, no matter how stolid, may be unsettled by the news that a new boss is about to take over. Talk in the hallways increases, staff worry about their jobs, uncertainty grows. Even when the change has happened, problems emerge when the boss who was hired to manage “from above” has to learn about the organization “from below.”In this book, Niklas Luhmann scrutinizes the relationship ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Theory of Society, Volume 2

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Theory of Society, Volume 1

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Feminist Praxis Revisited

    Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement

    Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson, Susanne Luhmann ...
    In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions.Teaching about and for social change has been a core value of the field since its inception, and co-op, practica, and internships have long been part of the curriculum ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Love

    A Sketch

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Kathleen Cross ...
    Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not surprising that it has been largely neglected by sociologists and social theorists. While it has long been a central preoccupation of writers and novelists, love has rarely attracted anything more than the most cursory attention of social scientists.This ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Risk

    A Sociological Theory

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Trust and Power

    Translated by John Raffan, Kathryn Rooney, Howard Davis ...
    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in what he refers to as ideologies – accounts which use implicit beliefs in particular conceptions of human nature to explain and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Love as Passion

    The Codification of Intimacy

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Jeremy Gaines, Doris L. Jones ...
    In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies. He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from traditional to modern societies, a semantics for love developed to accommodate extra-marital relationships; this semantics was ... Read more

    $22.00 USD